Tractor of the Month - May 2016

[SmilinSam 4,030]

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This months contest will be :

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Show us what your tractor is set up for and what it has been doing doing since removed from its winter slumber.

Contest limited to the first 8 entries.

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All Simplicity and Allis Chalmers Lawn & Garden Tractors as well as all other names made by Simplicity and/or Allis Chalmers id="orange">id="size5">

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All pictures submitted to Tractor of the Month contests should be sized to 640x480 to maintain consistency and neatness in presentation

Also: If contest criteria calls for multiple tractors, please put all the tractors in one picture, rather than posting a series of pictures showing individual tractors. Its the only way to get all your winning equipment, for such a contest, in the picture on the Club home page

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Tractor of the month contest guidelinesid="size3">

1. For club members and registered users. This also includes all officers, moderators, and administrators.

2. The selection committee will determine each monthly contests criteria. Equipment that does not meet theme criteria will be disqualified by the committee and removed from the submission topic.

3. The tractors submitted can be a restoration, an original, a rescue, a modification, an extensive repair/rebuild - or as specified by the committee.

4. This contest is open for owners to enter their own tractors, or by having someone else nominate them - upon which owner must accept and post entry.

5. The contest is limited to the first 8 entries submitted. This due to the poll system only being able to accommodate 8 entries. Following the 8th entry, the contest topic will be closed to further entries. Votes will be taken in the normal time frame as stated below.

6. Post your entry as a reply to this topic. Narrative and pictures are required - This to tell its story, and to convince voters why it is deserving of being the next Club's tractor of the month.

7. You can enter a tractor/equipment multiple times (months), but it can only win once per year. Once that tractor has won, you cannot submit that tractor again for a year on any subject.

8. Each contest will have a entry submission period beginning the 15th day of each month and lasting to the 15th day of the following month. Once the submission period is over, the current nomination topic will be locked and the next opened.

9.Following each months submission period, a poll topic will then be opened and members will be asked to vote on the nicest tractor listed in the nomination topic. All members and registered users are eligible to vote. Vote will last for a period of two weeks , from the 15th day of month to the last day of each month. The new winner will be declared on the 1st of each month.

10. Wining tractors each month will be posted on the club home page for a period of one month, 1st day of the month to the last day of the month, and a Contest winners hat will be sent to the winner.

11. Please post only entries/nominees in this topic -- any other replies will be deleted.

12. All pictures submitted should be sized to 640x480 to maintain consistency and neatness in presentation. If contest criteria calls for multiple tractors, please put all the tractors in one picture, rather than posting a series of pictures showing individual tractors. Its the only way to get all your winning equipment, for such a contest, in the picture on the Club home page

13. Final vote results will be posted to Poll topic at the time the Poll topic is closed. These posted results are the official, and FINAL results that will determine the winner each month regardless of any further votes cast After the polls have been closed. This is stated because while replies cannot be made after a poll topic is closed, apparently votes can continue to be cast. Its a technical issue that we have to work around at the present time.

14. In the event of a tie, the following procedure will be in effect. The tied winners will share having their pictures posted on the Club home page, each having an equal amount of the months time in the spotlight. There will only be one hat awarded though, and so there will be a run-off vote between the tied members for the hat. This vote will last 2 weeks. The winner of this second run-off vote will receive the winners hat.

If a tied winner has already won a contest and a hat, the hat for the tied contest will automatically be given to other tied winner who has not won one yet.

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[GrincheyOne 52]

Sam,

Do you think you jinxed the weather, (spring into winter again)?

With the on/off again potential of snow in my area, I have been reluctant to swap out the blower on my 2110 workhorse.

Wayne

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[SmilinSam 4,030]

I suppose in my zeal I could have jinxed it...

However..Myself, I have already had the grader on the Sunstar and crowned the drive, landscape raked the sticks out of the yard with the Sunstar, mulched up the fines in the yard with the 2005 Broadmoor with its gator blades, ripped out fence, dug up tree stumps, pulled fence posts, and hauled out new fence materials, dug up/ transplanted 3 dozen trees with the Kubota BX25d/backhoe....etc etc etc and the list goes on and on and ondOd

I pulled all my winter gear off 3-4 weeks ago and never looked back:D

I would note that the rest of the guys on the committee were for having a winter fun contest theme... seeing the lack of interest in my Spring idea I guess I should have kept my mouth shutsm00:D

[GrincheyOne 52]

iT EXCEEDED THE MID 70S TODAY, AND IS IN THE LOW 50S NOW, LOOKING FORWARD T 64 HOURS OF RAIN AND 16 HOURS OF SNOW BY THURSDAY. GOT A LAKE IN THE FRONT YARD.

[macallis180 296]

Hmmm. My B-207 already has the mower deck on - oh, wait - never took it off cause it never comes out for winter play! LOL!

[720nut 4,225]

How about plowing the garden

Seeing how know one has responded my 620 plowing

[maxwood 596]

Hello I am entering my 7117 sovereign shown Hauling wood, other duties were aerating the yard ( not shown, and planting grass seed)

Thanks Ken in Mi

[SmilinSam 4,030]

Submission period is now closed.

Please proceed to the vote at:http://simpletractors.com/club2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=165869

[SmilinSam 4,030]

Vote is now closed.

Official results at time of closing were:

Results:

720nut and his 620 [32%] 7 votes

maxwood and his 7117 [68%] 15 votes

Congratulations to Maxwood for being this months winner with his 7117